While White-tailed Deer, Wild Turkey and Largemouth Bass have benefited from sportsmen’s dollars, their funding support has not been enough to address the needs of all 800-plus wildlife species in the state. That is why it has been so important for...

This is a major revision of the 1999 Handbook for County Commissioners of Oklahoma. Revisions have been made that reflect changes in Oklahoma law since the 1999 version was produced.; This handbook revision has been prepared for use primarily by...

Researchers active in Arkoma Basin and Ouachita Mountains geology presented papers and poster at a field symposium in Poteau, Oklahoma in October 2004 on a wide variety of topics pertinent to resource evaluation in this part of the southern...

The Oklahoma Statewide Freight and Passenger Rail Plan is the result of a full year of research and study. While the plan meets congressionally stipulated requirements, it evolved beyond that basic purpose with input from a large cross-section of...

The Oklahoma Water Resources Board formally submits for your consideration this 2012 Update of the Oklahoma Comprehensive Water Plan (OCWP), the state's official long-range strategy for managing and protecting its invaluable surface and groundwater...

Updated through September 1, 2012, this publication contains a comprehensive listing of all Oklahoma state agencies, and includes information about elected officials, cabinet, legislature, courts, and institutions.

Extensive public participation and detailed technical evaluations, the two pillars of this 2012 Update of the Oklahoma Comprehensive Water Plan, have resulted in a bold, strategic vision with four core elements critical to securing Oklahoma’s water...

The Oklahoma Statewide Freight and Passenger Rail Plan is the result of a full year of research and study. While the plan meets congressionally stipulated requirements, it evolved beyond that basic purpose with input from a large cross-section of...

The Illinois River watershed spans the Oklahoma-Arkansas border in the northeastern part of the state and is located in Benton, Washington, and Crawford Counties in Arkansas and Delaware, Adair, Cherokee, and Sequoyah Counties in Oklahoma.; This...

Updated through September 1, 2013, this publication contains a comprehensive listing of all Oklahoma state agencies, and includes information about elected officials, cabinet, legislature, courts, and institutions.

Illinois River Studies Numerous studies have explored phosphorus (P) loads in the Illinois River Watershed (IRW) to the streams and rivers within the watershed and to Lake Tenkiller. Observed data and models indicate nonpoint source pollution is...

This volume contains two papers on the structural geology of the Ouachita Mountains of Oklahoma and Arkansas. The first, by J. Kaspar Arbenz, incorporates new data and new structural concepts to explain the sruface and subsurface geology of the...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE), Tulsa District conducted this study for the Oklahoma Water Resources Board (OWRB) and Adair County Rural Water District No. 5 (RWD5) under the authority of Section 22 of the Water Resources Development Act of...

This guidebook is a companion to Oklahoma Geological Survey (OGS) Special Publication 98-7, The Hartshorne Play in Southeastern Oklahoma: Regional and Detailed Sandstone Reservoir Analysis and Coalbed-Methane Resources, by Richard D. Andrews and...

The Forum on the Geology of Industrial Minerals is an annual meeting during which representatives of industry, government, and universities discuss the problems of geology, exploration, evaluation, and production of our important industrial...

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Executive Summary As required in the 2003 Statement of Joint Principles and Actions, in concert with an EPA grant, as well as Oklahoma’s review of the Oklahoma Water Quality Standards (“OWQS”), staff of the Oklahoma Water Resources Board (“OWRB”)...